Operation and Maintenance Management Manual Training Module - D Community Based Financial Management DEMEWOZ CONSULTANCY
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Step-2: Options for collection of O&M Fund The following box illustrate the available options for collection of O&M fund,
whichever is applied based on the agreement of the user community.
Box 3: Options for collection of O&M Fund Options for collection of O & M fund There are many ways to raise funds for O & M :
1. CASH CONTRIBUTIONS: i) FLAT RATE: this is the common method for point sources. Each
household or individual makes a regular payment at fixed amount.
ii)
BUCKET LEVY:In some villages money is levied at the water point on
each
bucket of water collected. For example, 10 cents per one Jerry-can
with 20 liter
capacity. Any cash transaction should be transparent with
proper accountability. In
some case a ticket shall be used for this
payment.
Pump Operator shall prepare a pile of tickets.
Each ticket shall be piled in order with sequential number.
A pump operator shall give collected cash with numbers of tickets
that were sold to a cashier.
After cross-checking between an amount of cash and tickets, a cashier
shall enter cash transaction into an account book.
Date Description In Out Balance 10
– 10 - 2006
XXXXXXXXX
XXX
XXX
120.00
11
– 10 - 2006
Sales of waters (70 tickets)
14.00
0.00
134.00
2. INKIND CONTRIBUTIONS: Some farming communities ask households to contribute in the form of
produce on an annual basis (i.e. after harvest)
